How it Works – Machines – The app combines easy to solve puzzles where your child puts together the major working parts of the machine, followed by an animation that shows how those parts work together to make the machine do its task.

DIY – Skills for Kids – Share what you make and do, find your audience and get followers, comment on your friends’ stuff, and earn patches for what you learn. DIY has more than 100 skills to try including Animator, Backyard Farmer, Minecrafter, Fashion Designer and Illustrator.

Cato’s Hike – A Programming and Logic Odyssey – Cato stepped through and discovered that this world unlike his own didn’t follow the same rules. Every time he tried to take a step or an action he’d find himself stuck in place. Stuck that is until he finally discovered the rules in this universe: by writing a program for himself he would be able to overcome all obstacles and learn something new along the way!

Khan Academy – Khan Academy allows you to learn almost anything for free

Curious Ruler– With Curious Ruler, children can explore and measure objects around them and learn about sizes, units of measure, and proportions. Curious Ruler is both a useful utility and a great educational tool that supports Measurement and Data Core Standards.

Doodle Cast – The app records your voice as you draw to create quick presentations. Doodlecast Pro saves videos to the camera roll making it easy to import them into popular video editors or presentation tools such as iMovie, Keynote, or iBooks Author.

Games

Cargo-Bot – Cargo-Bot is a puzzle game where you teach a robot how to move crates.

Lego life of George– Follow George around the world as he challenges you to a series of fun building tasks. Build as fast as possible, capture your model with your iPhone/iPod camera and get scored on your building skills.

Cosmos-A Space Time Odyssey – hosted by renowned astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. As with the legendary original series, the new COSMOS is the saga of how we discovered the laws of nature and found our coordinates in space and time.